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The Pleiadic Age Of Stuart Poesie: Restoration Uranography, Dryden's Judicial Astrology, And The Fate Of Anne Killigrew, Morgan Alexander Brown
The Pleiadic Age Of Stuart Poesie: Restoration Uranography, Dryden's Judicial Astrology, And The Fate Of Anne Killigrew, Morgan Alexander Brown
English Theses
The following Thesis is a survey of seventeenth-century uranography, with specific focus on the use of the Pleiades and Charles's Wain by English poets and pageant writers as astrological ciphers for the Stuart dynasty (1603-1649; 1660-1688). I then use that survey to address the problem of irony in John Dryden's 1685 Pindaric elegy, "To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killigrew," since the longstanding notion of what the Pleiades signify in Dryden's ode is problematic from an astronomical and astrological perspective. In his elegiac ode, Dryden translates a young female artist to the Pleiades to actuate her apotheosis, not for …
"Beat The Drum Ecclesiastic": Gilbert Sheldon And The Settlement Of Anglican Orthodoxy, Heather D. Thornton
"Beat The Drum Ecclesiastic": Gilbert Sheldon And The Settlement Of Anglican Orthodoxy, Heather D. Thornton
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The subject of this dissertation is Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury 1663-1677. This project give an overview of his life and the pivotal points in history where his actions and activities impacted the survival of the remnant of the church during the interregnum as well as settling it at the Restoration. This project seeks to reconstruct his role in the settlement of a definite Anglican identity during his tenure as archbishop and his legacy in handling the turbulent political and religious climate of late 17th century England.